Monthly Archive for July, 2013

: July, 2013

Update: The story this blog post was based on: “Doubling McDonald’s Salaries Would Cause Your Big Mac To Cost Just 68¢ More” on The Huffington Post was based an faulty data. The Huffington Post says on its site, “The research used as the basis… …

Ford Motor Company celebrated the 150th birthday of founder Henry Ford this week. So what better time to look at one of the greatest cars to ever come across his assembly line, the Ford Model T. Check …

KTVU just got a taste of its own medicine. Sort of. A South Korean TV newscast parody (evidently akin to The Onion) took a jab at the San Francisco Bay Area station’s epic Asian-names blunder when an anchor obliviously read obviously fake pilot name… …

Although eclipsed by the Sound of Music costume lot, which sold for $1,300,000, the Oz dress brought in a whopping $300,000! Another highlight of the auction was a cane used by Charlie Chaplin as part of his Little Tramp costume, which sold for $350,00… …

Russia’s been making headlines lately for its draconian homophobic legislation and systematic persecution of LGBT citizens and foreign nationals, which prompted some U.S. bars to boycott Stolichnaya vodka in protest. For an idea of how bad it is, lo… …

We use our phones to take pictures during meals. We text on the toilet. We check for missed calls and messages first thing in the morning. We take one last scroll through Facebook before drifting off to sleep. So perhaps unsurprisingly, many of us al… …

Google Ventures partner and Digg founder Kevin Rose can add “hero” to his resume. The tech mogul was awoken in the middle of the night Saturday when a raccoon attacked his dog right outside his San Francisco home. Rose quickly, instinctively interv… …

He seemed official. He was wearing that red outfit and his hat had a lot of feathers on it. He had what looked like a very fancy, and official, scroll. He was loud and confident and appeared to know what he was doing. But Royal Crier Tony Appleton tell… …

Nate Silver made it official today– he’s taking his act to ESPN. The political blogger and the sports network announced today that Silver is moving his fivethirtyeight blog away from the New York Times, confirming published reports. The site, whi… …